A case of patent ductus arteriosus, attended with a peculiar diastolic murmur / by C. Hilton Fagge, M.D.

  • Fagge, Charles Hilton, 1838-1883.
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[between 1800 and 1899]
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Credit: A case of patent ductus arteriosus, attended with a peculiar diastolic murmur / by C. Hilton Fagge, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CASE PATENT DUCTUS AETEEIOSUS, ATTENDED WITH A PECULIAR DIASTOLIC MURMUE. By C. HILTON FAGaE, M.D. In the last volume but one of these Reports, in a paper on the subject of mitral stenosis, I described a case which had been under my observation in vt^hich a murmur was audible entirely different in character from any bruit that I had ever before heard. Two views as to its cause suggested themselves to my mind—one that it was due to a communication between the aorta and the pulmonary artery; the other, that it was a modification of an auricular systolic murmur. The patient had left the hospital when my paper was written, and there seemed but little probability of my being able to ascertain which of these views was correct. Within the past year, however, she has been readmitted, and has died, and on post-mortem ex- amination it has been found that the only lesion to which the peculiar bruit could be attributed was a patent ductus arteriosus. The case appears to me to be of sufficient interest to justify my reprinting from my previous paper the detailed account of the murmur which was heard when she was before admitted into the hospital (op. cit., pp. 326 et seq.). Harriet H—, eet. 42, was admitted into the clinical ward under the care of Dr. Fagge, July 3rd, 1869. She has never